PaPa, Can I drive your tractor next?

What do you dream of?

Here's a dream question for you. When you have a dream about living in a house, is it the house you are currently living in? I have found that in almost every dream that I can remember that takes place in a house, I am always living in the old house where I grew up. Even though I haven't lived there for 14-15 years, I'm always back in that old house.
So I am curious if that's just me or if other people experience that as well.

The swap

Over the weekend we swapped out our nice appliances with the older ones that came with our new home. We didn't want to go through the headache of trying to sell this house without appliances because any buyer we had was going to want to try and keep them. I don't blame them, they are nice appliances. So on Sunday afternoon with the help of Mike and Pastor Matt, Dan traded the fridge and stove. The job was long and tedious. The doors off both refrigerators had to come off in order to get them in, and out, of each house. And once in place the door had to go back on. So after 4 long hours, the job was done. However, for me, the job was just beginning. Since we are now having to use these older appliances, they had to be cleaned. Let me just tell you, they were DISGUSTING! I am guessing they are both about 7-8 years old since that is how old the house is. I honestly do not think that either appliance had ever been cleaned. I was cleaning out dust bunnies from the inside of the fridge. Yes, INSIDE! I wanted to vomit-it was that bad.
It's one thing to clean your own dirt and grime, but when it's someone elses, it's down right gross!
Once I got done with the fridge I had to tackle the oven. The bottom was mostly black from all the baked on food and dirt. I cleaned the outside and then sprayed EasyOff and let it sit about 12 hours. I finally got it as clean as it's going to get.
I just hope our house sells soon...

Getting close

Today was our final walk-through of our new house. We officially close on it on Wednesday. The garage doors and openers still do not work properly so our realtor said she'd contact the appropriate people and try and get this straightened out. This was supposed to be corrected before we close.

I am starting to get excited but at the same time I am overwhelmed by everything that needs to be done. The entire house is filthy and will need a good scrubbing. We also want to paint the laundry room, Lucy's room and the entire downstairs before we move. The other rooms will have to wait till after we move in. Dan also needs to get the basement ready so he can move his business down there. Then there's the packing and the actual moving. And doing this all with a 6 month old who will not sleep anywhere but her crib is going to make it hard for me to get much done. Calling all babysitters!!!! Any vounteers???

On Demand

For those of you who don't have Comcast or Insight digital cable, you may not be familiar with the ON DEMAND button. It's a great little feature that lets you access extra programming like movies and kids programs. My favorite section is called The Free Spot. Just like the title suggests, everything in this section is available to watch free of charge. Now, within this section, there are many, many different channels to choose from.

One of Dan's favorite channels on The Free Spot is G4. He loves to watch this crazy Japanese show. It is funny and I will watch it with him without complaining, but I am glad we don't have this channel on our regular lineup.

I recently discoverd a channel called Tube Time. It's a selection of about 10 old TV shows. Currently you can choose from Fantasy Island, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Party of Five, Facts of Life, Silver Spoons, One Day at a Time, and... the rest I can't think of right now. My favorites are Facts of Life and Silver Spoons. The other night I watched an episode of Silver Spoons and it made me realize just how bad the acting was and how even more horrible the clothing and fashion was! YIKES! I was laughing so hard because this was the episode where Ricky promises that he will have Menuedo sing at his party. I remember the Menuedo days and how I really liked them at the time. I was 7 or 8 years old, I didn't know any better!
Check out the outfits! Classy!

He's so much better looking now! So cute!

follow-up to my last post

I have been thinking alot during the last 24 hours about this whole house selling business. The more I think about it, the more irritated I get.
Yesterday we had a lady make an offer but it was extremely low and she was asking for our washer/dryer, our extra fridge in the basement, our kitchen appliances, and all window treatments, and a few other things that would naturally come with the house. Call me selfish, but I want to keep my things. I realize people negotiate other things when buying homes, but I don't know why it's expected that we should just be willing to give away our belongings that we worked so hard to buy. I would hate to lose a potential buyer over the curtains in my living room, but darn it, it took me forever to find ones that I liked and JCP doesn't sell them anymore. So it's not like I could go buy new ones.
So buy my house, not my things!

new perspective

Good news: we got an offer on our house. Bad news: it's a lowball offer.

Dan and I have now had experience in purchasing 2 homes, but this is our first experience at selling. I understand how the game works, both parties go back and forth till a price is agreed upon. It kind of reminds me of a mating dance or something from a show on the Nature Channel. I feel like we "dance" back and forth and ruffle our feathers in this whole real estate game.

I am also shocked by what people ask for when they put in an offer. Not only did this girl put in a very low offer. She's also asking for some of our belongings; Some of our very expensive belongings. That is totally crazy to me. If she wants our stuff, then she needs to put in a better offer!

oops

On Monday afternoon, I took Lucy for a drive out to my parents. She wasn't wanting to nap and I thought a drive would at least get her a little bit of sleep. I left and Dan was working down in the basement on decals. After I got home, Dan had some news to tell me. Apparently, about 30 minutes after I left Dan heard the door open upstairs and heard footsteps and voices. At first he thought I was back home, but then her heard mulitple voices. Not sure what was going on, He came upstairs just in time to find a realtor with clients walking through our kitchen. Thank goodness Dan was home and caught them. I was not expecting anyone that day and therefore Lucy's toys were all over the living room floor, her exersaucer and swing were out in the middle of the room, my bed wasn't made and there was stuff on the table and counters. The house wasn't a total disaster, but it sure wasn't presentable for a showing. The realtor even asked Dan if they could go ahead a look around since they were already there. Dan told her that the house wasn't picked up and they'd have to come back.
Our realtor called to apologize after realizing what had happened. She said there had been some miscommunication between them. These people were looking at a few houses that day and thought that our house was open to see. OOPS

6 month update

Today was Lucy's 6 month appointment. Once again, she cried when they weighed her and when they took her temp. She's healthy and right on target for what she should be doing at her age.

She weighs a hefty 22 pounds and is 28 inches long. She also got a few more shots today and she really didn't like that. We got the go ahead to start solids. I need to go to the store and buy a few things. I think I am going to try making some of her food and freezing it. I found a great website with lots of information. If you're interested it's wholesomebabyfood.com.

current obsession

I have recently become aware that I have little restraint when it comes to buying hair accessories for Lucy. There is a great website called etsy.com and it's a site for all things handmade. It's a great site cause it allows crafters a place to sell their products. You can buy jewelry, purses, clothing, baby items, and thousands of other handmade items. I'm addicted, plain and simple.
I love to go on and browse the baby headbands and hair clips. You would never find stuff this cute at the mall or Target. Here's a picture of the latest headband I bought. I love it because the clips are interchangeable. I just bought her a few more flower clips yesterday. I can't wait to get them in the mail.

6 months

Today Lucy is 6 months old. It's hard to believe she's 1/2 a year old already. December will be before I am ready.

Here is her 6 month picture. The outfit hasn't gotten too tight yet, maybe we'll make it another month or 2.

Her doctor's appt is next Monday, so we'll find out then her official height and weight.

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